The European Commission has just published (July 20, 2010) 51 new Calls for Proposal covering the four main FP7 Specific Programmes: Cooperation, Capacities, Ideas and People. The full texts of the Calls are published to the FP7 section of the Cordis website.

Among them, the 9th call for proposals has been detailed in the Research Infrastructures Work Programme 2011 and has been published under the e-Infrastructures topic of the FP7 “Capacities” Specific Programme (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2).

With an indicative budget of EUR 95 million, the ninth call aims at supporting the existing research infrastructures, the construction of new infrastructures as well as the policy development and programme implications. The topics of the call include: 1/. INFRA-2011-1.2.1: e-Science environments; 2/.INFRA-2011-1.2.2: Data infrastructures for e-Science; 3/. INFRA-2011-2.3.1: Second implementation phase of the European High Performance Computing (HPC) service PRACE; 4/. INFRA-2011-3.4: Coordination actions, conferences and studies supporting policy development, including international cooperation, for e- Infrastructures; 4/. INFRA-2011-3.5: Trans-national cooperation among NCPs.

The deadline for the submission of proposal is on November 23, 2010.